RE: [boost] metactrl header [compile time asserts]

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-07-25 11:43:42

Reid Sweatman wrote on 7/25/2000 11:51 AM
>Probably missing the point here, but I always thought that one was called
>the ternary operator, mainly because it's the only native C construct that
>has three terms.  Not that that helps the present discussion any.
>
>> David Abrahams wrote on 7/23/2000 5:28 PM
>> >What is the ?: operator called in C/C++?
>>
>> conditional

From the standard:

5.16 - Conditional operator [expr.cond]

       conditional-expression:
               logical-or-expression
               logical-or-expression ? expression : assignment-expression

No doubt that it is also the one and only ternary operator as well.

-Howard